This movie highlights many of the wonderful things happening through Ananda around the world, including the focus of this page: education and family. Ananda’s Living Wisdom Schools are prominently featured in the film, and Mary Kretzmann and her grown children speak of the power of growing up in a spiritually enriching home and community.

Finding Happiness: While visiting a spiritual community in northern California called Ananda (meaning “Joy”) an investigative journalist armed with a fair amount of skepticism and a dash of curiosity discovers that the key to finding happiness comes from within and that when you change, everything changes.

“A treasure — Very inspiring and so relevant.”

–Christiane Northrup, M.D.,

Ob/Gyn physician, author of the New York Times bestsellersWomen’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause